Grease Monkey

8:30 pm

I ain't even mad, bro!

I started this a month or so back, and then my sewing machine literally fell apart stitching it. I almost died since this was going to be my last project before I had to do my harley Quinn costume and also my friend's wedding dress and our bridesmaid dresses. I FLIPPED. Well. Problem averted. I'm going to buy a new machine since it will be only $30 cheaper to get my old one fixed. HAR HAR NO WAY. So I've been using my mum's dreamboat Janome and I am so keen for one. I love Janomes. I could change my name to Janome California if I could. Anyway, enough drivel, ONTO THE MECHANIC COVERALL!

I'm totally drawing up a pattern for this, going to scan it in sometime this week for you to print out and make! YEY YOU GUYS YEY! It will fit up to a tall 2 year old. A very tall skinny 2 year old since my kid is a lean, green, nerdy string bean [well he's on the way anyway!]

Got his swagger on

I pieced this together using pants patterns and a collared shirt pattern I've made previously. It has a back yoke and a zipper up the front for easy access! The legs are quite long because I wanted to be able to have turn up cuffs. Aren't they adorbs!

There is a wide drop-waist band around the middle, which is perfect for lengthening and shortening when you are cutting out the pieces :)

tra-la-la

I know I've tried to keep the Little Monster's name on the down-low on the blog recently, but you seriously cannot miss that back-patch there can you. I bought it when he was born since it's the name of a motorbike [my parents would have called me Harley Vincent if I was a boy. Yeh, my ma + pa like bikes] and you can buy loads of merch with The Vincent on it. Hurray!

On the front is a patch of a spiderweb since I sorted through all my patches and it was the only one that seemed to go well.

I may be addicted to taking 'strutting' photos of him.

Phew! I have literally been on this blog all damn day writing up a tutorial for Batman Week! Resizing pics with photoshop going skitz at me and ye gods! Oh well. It's done, it's queued I even wrote up pdf to print out of the tutorial and tomorrow I'm even going to make a pattern for part of the tute and attach that too :) Spoilt ya'll shall be!

About me

Hi! Welcome to Max California!

I'm Ari and this is my DIY blog for people who aren't your vanilla mama. It's nerdy, it's grungy, it's outside the box, it's got two kickass kids and many free sewing tutorials and patterns just for you!